Sentence examples for urbanization monitoring from inspiring English sources

His popular and peer-reviewed writings address issues including climate change, poverty alleviation, ecosystem services, species conservation, evolution, urbanization, monitoring and accountability, and the psychological relationships between people and nature.

With time intervals of about 10 years almost 40 years of urbanization are monitored, showing different dimensions, dynamics and patterns across the analyzed cities.

To determine nest predation along a Neotropical urbanization gradient, we monitored artificial nests in urban, suburban, and shrubland environments.

The objective of this study is to explore an approach for combining remote sensing and spatial metrics to monitor urbanization, and investigate the relationship between urbanization and urban land use plans.

Predictions were based on meteorologic and other characteristics (e.g., weekday/weekend) of a particular day, as well as measures of land use (e.g., cumulative traffic density within 100 m and percent urbanization) at each monitor location.

The methodology also proved particularly effective for monitoring peri-urbanization outside the urban core, capturing > 98% of village settlements.

Our study provided a practical methodological framework, by integrating remote sensing, geographical information systems, landscape metrics and spatial regression, for monitoring the impacts of urbanization on soil resources.

They are to shoot photographs for such purposes as monitoring Earth deforestation and urbanization, aiding natural-disaster relief and monitoring agricultural yields in developing nations.

Temporal frequency, availability of free to less expensive data sources of satellite imagery and image processing techniques have greatly enhanced the potential for monitoring and mapping urban growth and monitoring urban land use change (Goodchild 2000; Im et al. 2008), urban land use dynamics (Herold et al. 2003), landscape pattern analysis (Li and Yeh 2004), and urbanization (Weng 2007).

Mapping landscapes in a rapidly urbanizing region can contribute significantly to quantifying, monitoring and understanding the complex process of urbanization.

It is important to regularly monitor the effect of urbanization on the natural environment so as to allow us to control the encroachment to a reasonable extent.